Kill Time - The Clash

Kill Time from The Clash´s Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg.
RPFFB is what was to become Combat Rock with a couple of songs that didn´t make it to that masterful album, Kill Time being one of them.
Some people say Mick Jones has confirmed this song´s actual name to be Idle In The Kangaroo Court W1, but it´s listed as Kill Time and that´s what I´ll call it until Mick sends me an angry email or something thereof.

Pretty damn good song this one too, though perhaps a bit weaker than say The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too.
(Un)Interesting trivia, according to Wikipedia a Kangaroo Court is "A judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, or a group which conducts such proceedings, which is without proper authority, abusive, or otherwise unjust."
A bad thing no doubt.

Oh, and just in case anyone misses it, the Go Cat Go is ripped right of from Ted Nugent´s 1977 hit Cat Scratch Fever. Nugent was a frequent target of attacks from The Clash, including dedicating I´m So Bored With the USA to him (along with Aerosmith and at a special occasion The Blue Oyster Cult) and calling him...unnice things, no doubt due to his conservative linkings, Republican ties and tendency to write stuff about...nothing at all really. Which makes sense, since it´s really hard to write a conservative rock and roll song. Obey The Goverment, Shoot The Deers, Kill The Fags...you see, it just doesn´t sound good.

Oh sorry, I´m rambling. Anyway.

Btw, just for the record, I know Idle In The Kangaroo Court W1 is already on Youtube, but I know of at least one person who still couldn´t find this song (what a dork ey :p).

Lyrics:

"Shout everybody shout!
Hey waiter!
I want in, I want out
Hey jailer!


Run walk this way, that way
Buy a paper
Or reach easy on your knees, for later


Go Cat Go!
That message you run
Is gonna be a make or break-er


Zoom Zoom!


Now I am a one man survey team, from Labour
I am studying you city types' behaviour
Hey girl, this opinion poll, you can't wait huh?
Perhaps I'll flee my bench, to chase her


Go Cat Go!
In bitching hour!
Go grab your wings, to chase her


You sold your time but, I still got mine
I'm from the spare-part pile, 'wanna see my
Licence To Kill Time!


The shows tonight
Will close tonight
See you later
The efficient sweep
Will wash the streets safer
From the rush-hour crush to the empty square I'll wait here
And the b-line c-line d-line three-line breaker


Go Cat Go!
In the spillage hour
Everybody's going, as if they'll get there later


Yep!


You've sold your time but, I've still got mine
I'm from the spare-part pile, 'wanna see my
Licence To Kill Time!


Kill Time


Dali melts it


Arnie Pauly - to be an agitator
Arnie Pauly - and someone's left the paper
Arnie Pauly - to be an agitator
Arnie Pauly Pauly,
Someone's left their paper


Shout everybody shout, hey waiter!
I want in, I want out! Hey Jailer!
Run walk this way, that way
Buy a paper
Or reach easy on your knees, for later


And the b-line c-line a-line free-line
Hard-line, best-line, left-line, fine-line
Breaker."

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[Pinkneyknows]

combat rock was the sellout album to an extent. this tune should have gone on it. maybe replaced been next to car jamming.

[AppoCC119]

Sellout? No one who wishes to sell out would ever place Ghetto Defendant, Sean Flynn and Straight In Hell on their album.

The Clash kept expanding their horizons and did one single AC/DC-rock track and one dance rock track and suddenly they're sellouts.

[siulungkevin]

millwallr1: And how exactly do you define "good enough?" A song with a poppy tune that will help sell lots of records, right? Perhaps u should be working as a music executive for CBS records or something because that's exactly the same greedy narrow-minded MTVesque attitude as they have. Fact is, this song is astonishing -- far better than some of the songs that *did* make it onto their records (like Rock the Casbah). Do yourself a favour & open your mind you establishment tool!

[alastairjr40]

@Pinkneyknows I like Car jamming.

[icaltrin]

Thanks for this ! I've been a Clash fan since I was 13. That was 30 years ago. And I've never heard this track. Very very happy to hear this. As for those who say the Clash 'sold out', I have two comments: Joe Strummer said: 'We were never your monkey to begin with.' And Mick Jones said: 'What's a sell-out? Well, that's when you put up a certain amount of tickets up for sale. And when all the tickets are sold, and there are no more available. That's called a sell-out.'

Love and Light to all :)

[Kurbisa]

@stuartandtheavenue93 It would be cool, man.

[stuartandtheavenue93]

@Kurbisa aw, i hope they do a 30th anniversary edition of combat rock with some of the unreleased songs and demos, like they did with london calling

[Kurbisa]

@stuartandtheavenue93 It's on a bootleg which was supposed to be Combat Rock, called "Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg"

[Kurbisa]

Sorry guys, I've tried to listen Jessie J's "Do it Like a Dude" (which is so controversial) and just had to listen to some good music. I was feeling suicidal... In a world that rejected the Clashes, Zappas and Velvet Undergrounds of today, this remains the only place where I can find people who actually CAN understand music.

Thank you guys.

Greetings from Istria.

[stuartandtheavenue93]

where can i get this??

[dortyhoor]

@highschoolmusical841 It is a real shame about the Cut the crapLP because when it was first played live the material sounded good, when the LP came out it was surprising because it was so different, I saw them play the c.t.c tunes two or three times and it sounded much like their 78-80 era music. Do you know if there are any bootlegs about from that period? Id like to see (hear) if my memory has put rosy earmuffs on the gigs.

[dortyhoor]

@njlacrosse9 When they first played that Lp's tracks live they sounded totally different, actually quite good and dare I say it, typical Clash, the LP sounded nothing like the tunes live. So on that merit alone I'll stick up for that LP. Bootlegs of that era show how different they are.

But yeah, I hadnt thought of that LP it is pretty rubbish.

[njlacrosse9]

@dortyhoor really? even with cut the crap on the table? i love all of their albums except that one